MINUTES
Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Monday, January 4, 2010 3:30 pm
Union Room 213
Present: Bontrager, Cauble, Dodd, Eckels, Fairchild, Gehrt, Holcombe, Hughey, King, LeHew, Nichols, Ross,
and B. Schultz
Absent: Allen, Haub, Hoag, A. Schultz, Turnley, Vontz
Proxies: Guzek and Knopp
1. The meeting was called to order by President LeHew at 3:35 p.m.
2. The November 30, 2009 minutes were approved.
3. Report from Standing Committees and Student Senate
A. Academic Affairs Committee – Barney King
1. Items for January Faculty Senate consent agenda – page 2 *
King moved to merge these items with the previously approved consent agenda from December.
Motion passed.
B. Faculty Affairs Committee – Judy Hughey/Kaleen Knopp
Hughey reported no new items to add to the agenda.
B. Faculty Senate Committee on Technology – Tweed Ross
Toss reported no new items to be added to the agenda.
C. Faculty Senate Committee on University Planning – Tom Vontz
No report.
E. Student Senate – Amy Schultz
No report.
4.
Announcements
A. President/Faculty Senate Leadership Council
Candace Becker reported that the 2010-2011 election process will begin soon. Bontrager noted that
Shubert will be moving back to the Associate Vice President position and a search will begin soon to fill
the Vice President’s position.
B. Caucus Chair reports
No report.
5.
For the Good of the University
Dodd asked about the status of the communications and marketing subcommittee being formed under
FSCOUP. LeHew noted that she would follow-up with Vontz. Eckels asked about the status of the
advisory committee to Athletics. He also expressed his concern related to coach’s policies and practices
regarding coach’s disciplinary activities in light of the recent incidents with other collegiate coaches.
LeHew replied she would follow up with the status of the advisory committee that was to be formed.
After some discussion LeHew asked if Senators were interested in inviting John Currie to an executive
meeting to get a better understanding of the Athletic Department’s perspective on the issue. LeHew
noted that Currie had requested the opportunity to attend a Faculty Senate meeting early in the spring
semester with Jill Shields to explain Athletic budget information. LeHew announced she will invite
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Currie and Shields to attend a Faculty Senate meeting and also invite them to an executive committee
meeting.
Cauble reported that Eric Hickey will be presenting tonight at 6:30pm in Big XII conference room
regarding behavior of serial murders.
6.
The meeting adjourned at 4:04 p.m.
Submitted by Cindy Bontrager, Secretary of Faculty Senate
Next meeting: Monday, January 25, 2010; 3:30 p.m., Union room 213
* The December Faculty Senate meeting was cancelled due to inclement weather; therefore, items from the
December consent agenda will be included with the January items placed on the January Faculty Senate consent
agenda for approval.
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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Course and Curriculum Changes
A. Proposed consent agenda items:
1. King moved to merge the following undergraduate and graduate course and curriculum items with
the December consent agenda on the January Faculty Senate consent agenda (refer to approval sheets for
further details):
COURSE CHANGES AND ADDITIONS:
College of Agriculture – October 19, 2009 approval sheets
Add:
♦PLPTH 300 Microbes, Plants, and the Human Perspective
College of Technology and Aviation –December 7, 2009 approval sheets
Department of Aviation
Add:
AVT 360 Airport Law
AVT 361 Airport Environmental Studies
AVT 560 Airport Master Planning and Design
PPIL 210 Aviation Safety
PPIL 387 Crew Resource Management
Department of Engineering Technology
Add:
CMST 355 Network Programming
2. Graduate course and curriculum changes approved by the Graduate Council on December 1, 2009
(parentheses indicate page number the change can be located on in the grad council agenda):
COURSE CHANGES
Add:
IMSE 866 Applied Stochastic Processes and Theoretical Simulation (26)
ECON 910 Topics in Macroeconomics (26)
ECON 935 Time Series Econometrics (26)
ECON 938 Microeconometrics (26)
GEOG 701 Seminar in Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research (26)
POLSC 628 Civic Engagement (27)
POLSC 712 Game Theory for Political Scientists (27)
PSYCH 850 Current Issues in Health Psychology (27)
Change:
ECON 805 Macroeconomic Theory I (28)
ECON 905 Macroeconomic Theory II (28)
ECON 930 Econometrics II (28)
CURRICULUM CHANGES
Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders Graduate Certificate (29)
Motion passed.
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